Anthony C Beilenson

Lake Balboa Park in Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area was formally renamed in honor of former congressman Anthony C. Beilenson at a dedication ceremony Monday. New signs, reading "Anthony C. Beilenson Park," were unveiled at the entrance, on the east side of Balboa Boulevard near Victory Boulevard, during the ceremony attended by local officials and representatives of the city of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

After Margot Feuer moved to the hills of Malibu in 1965, she was "catapulted into community action" by the threat of development in the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains. The terrifying proposals included building a nuclear power plant in an isolated canyon and a freeway through Malibu Canyon. "I looked around at what I was in the middle of," she later said, "and I figured, gosh, the idea of a park is a beautiful idea. " Hundreds would join her in the movement to create a national park in Los Angeles, but only Feuer and two other activists would be recognized as "the founding mothers" of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, which won federal approval in 1978.

In testimony to a congressional subcommittee this week, Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) asked the government to fund $7.7-million worth of improvements to Lake Balboa Park and the Sepulveda Basin's wildlife area, Beilenson's office announced. Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Beilenson said $4.2 million would pay for amenities such as restrooms, picnic tables, trees, trails and vegetation at Lake Balboa Park in Encino.

Lake Balboa Park in Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area was formally renamed in honor of former congressman Anthony C. Beilenson at a dedication ceremony Monday. New signs, reading "Anthony C. Beilenson Park," were unveiled at the entrance, on the east side of Balboa Boulevard near Victory Boulevard, during the ceremony attended by local officials and representatives of the city of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

Rep. Carlos J. Moorhead virtually assured that he will become the Republican minority leader on the House Energy and Commerce Committee when he staved off a challenge Tuesday by a veteran colleague in a key vote by GOP lawmakers. This could make the Glendale conservative a significant player on a broad range of business, health, environment and technology issues. The Energy and Commerce Committee handles as much as 40% of the measures to reach the House floor, according to some estimates.

Ventura County Reps. Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) and Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) did not give any speeches to special-interest groups or accept any trips funded by such interests in 1992, according to financial reports released last week. Beilenson, whose 24th District includes most of Thousand Oaks, has long refrained from accepting any speaking fees or travel reimbursements. Congressional rules require that such payments be given to charity.

The Jewish National Fund, San Fernando Valley Region, will honor Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Los Angeles) and his wife, Dolores, with its "Tree of Life" award at a dinner Sunday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The event, which will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., will recognize Beilenson's 29 years as an elected public official and Dolores Beilenson's social activism, which includes co-chairing Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry. Information and reservations: (818) 990-0511.

I'm really upset with the current redistricting. It's not the San Fernando Valley anymore since we are being given candidates like Anthony C. Beilenson and Tom Hayden, who would never have been a choice for the Valley. We aren't being properly represented. People in the Valley have nothing to do with Malibu and Santa Monica. Valley people aren't going to put up with the candidates that are being offered to us. This redistricting is fuel for a movement that the Valley secede from Los Angeles.

Citing the Southern California homeowners still struggling with earthquake damage two years after the Northridge temblor, Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) is calling on the federal government to once again extend a disaster-relief program. In a letter sent this week to James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the congressman is asking that the housing assistance program for quake victims be extended past its April 17 deadline.

City park officials will soon consider a proposal by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) to rename Lake Balboa Park in honor of his predecessor in the 24th Congressional District, former Democratic Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson. Beilenson, who stepped down in 1996, was instrumental in securing congressional funding for the lake and a host of other amenities, including hiking trails, picnic areas and landscaping, said Lake Balboa Park Superintendent James Ward.

During his legislative career, Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) did things his way. In 1967, the native New Yorker sponsored a trailblazing therapeutic-abortion law in the state Legislature before Roe vs. Wade became law. Nearly three decades later, he miffed the liberals who had long adored him by writing a law that would have denied citizenship rights to babies born to illegal immigrants in the United States.

With Congress poised to recess through the rest of the year, Reps. Anthony Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills), Carlos Moorhead (R-Glendale) and other retiring lawmakers have begun the humbling transformation from congressman to regular guy. "Everybody who works in Congress or serves in Congress knows this day comes," said David Joergenson, a longtime Moorhead aide who is hustling for a new job himself. "It comes sooner for some, later for others.

With Congress poised to recess for the rest of the year, retiring Reps. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) and Carlos J. Moorhead (R-Glendale) have begun the humbling transformation from congressman to regular guy. "Everybody who works in Congress or serves in Congress knows this day comes," said David Joergenson, a longtime Moorhead aide who is hustling for a new job himself. "It comes sooner for some, later for others.

The House of Representatives begins every business day on a solemn note: House Chaplain James David Ford steps to the head of the august chamber and, head bowed, delivers an opening prayer. "At the beginning of each day we give thanks to you, O God, for all the gifts and blessings and hopes that we receive," he said one recent morning. From there, the verbiage from the podium often goes downhill fast.

What began as a political mud fight ended as an eloquent civics lecture on Wednesday by an appellate court jurist quoting Will Rogers, Abe Lincoln and Harry Truman. "Our constitution protects everyone--even politicians," wrote Justice Arthur Gilbert in a 17-page opinion that Republican candidate Rich Sybert's libel lawsuit against Congressman Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) had no place in our courts.

Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Los Angeles) has more than nine times as much cash on hand as his Republican opponent in the 24th Congressional District race, Assemblyman Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks), according to campaign finance reports filed Wednesday. The district stretches from the western San Fernando Valley to Malibu and through Agoura Hills and Calabasas into the Thousand Oaks area of Ventura County.

Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the House committee that investigated the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987, said that he will formally ask Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Los Angeles), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to examine whether the White House withheld key documents from the congressional inquiry into the scandal. The Senate Intelligence Committee already has been asked to open a similar inquiry by Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.

In a stirring defense of a politician's right to sling mud, an appellate court jurist released a 17-page opinion Wednesday stating that a failed congressional candidate's libel suit against his opponent had no place in court. "Our constitution protects everyone--even politicians," wrote Justice Arthur Gilbert in rejecting the lawsuit that Republican candidate Rich Sybert filed last year against Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills).

Citing the Southern California homeowners still struggling with earthquake damage two years after the Northridge temblor, Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) is calling on the federal government to once again extend a disaster-relief program. In a letter sent this week to James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the congressman is asking that the housing assistance program for quake victims be extended past its April 17 deadline.